Posted: Thu 23 May 2013, 08:05 Post subject:
How to avoid savings to Usb Flash.Subject description: How to avoid savings to Usb Flash.

Hi !!

How to avoid savings to Usb Flash.

Found another solution for problem---installing pets, debs or downloads from PPmanager and--- „ not to save them to USB Flash on demand, without spoiling PPmanager „--- Works for Puppy Precise ,(,probably on Raring too .did not test yet )

1.Download somewhere the script „nosaveshutdown „ make it executable .

Save to flash ..restart
Now you can install pets debs or downloads from PPmanager without spoiling it..If you like to keep them
either use „save2flash „ during session without shutting down ,
or saving session at shutdown ..just shutdown as usual session will be saved.

In case you dont want to save Changes /session ...just execute the script above „nosaveshutdown“ . Nothing will be saved to Flash .This works for me onPrecise Puppy 5.6 . Probobly on UPUP RARING too (did not test it yet)

I have fixed xorgwizard so that it does offer the nvidia driver, however I do need to know one thing:

Could you please tell me, when the official nvidia installer offers to blacklist the nouveau kernel driver, and you accept, what is the name of the file it creates in /etc/modprobe.d, and what is it's exact content?

i made some pets of the amd graphic drivers for precise 5.6..... first one's for modern cards, second for older legacy cards. i can't test the legacy driver as i don't have the right card. let me know if it's ok

CHANGE2ROOT=""
if [ "$HOMEUSER" != "root" ];then # without ADMINPASSWORD
CHANGE2ROOT="<text><label>$(gettext 'However, if you wish, you can change to the administrator (root) permanently on the next boot. Just tick this box and it will be so:')</label></text>
<checkbox>
<label>$(gettext 'Tick box to become administrator permanently')</label>
<default>false</default>
<variable>CHECKADMIN</variable>
</checkbox>
<text><label>$(gettext 'This will take affect after reboot.')</label></text>
"

I have fixed xorgwizard so that it does offer the nvidia driver, however I do need to know one thing:

Could you please tell me, when the official nvidia installer offers to blacklist the nouveau kernel driver, and you accept, what is the name of the file it creates in /etc/modprobe.d, and what is it's exact content?

In parallel with BK's changes for nvidia described here, Shinobar has released getnvidia 0.9.2 which creates an sfs which loads successfully onto the current Precise 5.6 and after a reboot the nvidia driver is being used and also is displayed as an option by xorgwizard.

Hopefully the changes made by BK and Shinobar will prove to be complementary....

The Woof-level notes above state that this pup has a new Xorg Video Wizard and a "recovery mechanism". if you bootup and do not get a graphical desktop, and the keyboard/mouse have hung, which can happen with some troublesome old video hardware, press the 'reset' button on the PC or hold down the 'power' button for 4 seconds to force a shutdown -- at next startup the "recovery mechanism" kicks in, forcing the Xorg Video Wizard to run. Then, you can try an alternate Xorg driver.
As this is a new feature, I welcome feedback, especially tweaks for the /usr/sbin/xorgwizard-cli script, if you know Bash coding!

...tested on my Asus 1225c which is equiped with Atom cedar trails. And it does not work for me. At first pass: black screen. Reboot. Second pass: black screen.

So far, the only puppies that could boot were Racy v5.5 and upup-precise 3.8.3. These two boots into 1024x768. Then when running xorg video wizard manually and ask for a probe, will allow the 1366x768 ; Important to note: the screen in text mode to chose between probe, test... is too big and goes out of the screen ! So you need to type in blind (enter the first time, because hopefully this is the default, then enter again when the screen resolution is selected) because you don't see the buttons. It seems the issue is common and most people when having video problems get down to 1024x768 so maybe it would be good to adapt the message for that size so anyone can see the buttons to press.

Machine already has Lucid 511 and Lucid 528.004 installed, no problems.
Downloaded the Precise 5.6 iso using Lucid 528.4, md5sum was ok.
Mounted the iso, copied its contents to a toplevel dir on /mnt/home (sda1),
edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to add new entries. Rebooted into Precise 5.6.

The reboot chooses the intel video driver, and finds the desktop icons ok
(but see below); I set the timezone, choose an unencrypted ext3
savefile and try to shutdown; the shutdown script prints only 1 line (something like "Precise is shutting down") then hangs without shutting down (fan still full on 5min later). Hit power button, reboot.

This time no icons found, text message "can't find file ..." appears then
disappears before it can be fully read, desktop screen has only triangles.
Try to shutdown, same problem as before. (Early puppy 4.x and 5.x
would also give incomplete shutdown progress messages on this machine,
but problem was cured before 5.11, perhaps about when ext3 savefiles
were introduced.)

All the above was done in a location lacking network access, which is normally not a problem. Came to this forum for clues, no luck.

I have a full install of 5.6 on my Inspiron 700M.
Had same reboot-shutdown problem.
Added "pfix=acpi force" (no quotes) to kernel line in grub menu.lst.
Fixed the problem.
Edit:
Maybe it was just acpi=force.
Removed it after the reboot was working and it's still good.

Machine already has Lucid 511 and Lucid 528.004 installed, no problems.
Downloaded the Precise 5.6 iso using Lucid 528.4, md5sum was ok.
Mounted the iso, copied its contents to a toplevel dir on /mnt/home (sda1),
edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to add new entries. Rebooted into Precise 5.6.

The reboot chooses the intel video driver, and finds the desktop icons ok
(but see below); I set the timezone, choose an unencrypted ext3
savefile and try to shutdown; the shutdown script prints only 1 line (something like "Precise is shutting down") then hangs without shutting down (fan still full on 5min later). Hit power button, reboot.

This time no icons found, text message "can't find file ..." appears then
disappears before it can be fully read, desktop screen has only triangles.
Try to shutdown, same problem as before. (Early puppy 4.x and 5.x
would also give incomplete shutdown progress messages on this machine,
but problem was cured before 5.11, perhaps about when ext3 savefiles
were introduced.)

All the above was done in a location lacking network access, which is normally not a problem. Came to this forum for clues, no luck.

I can't do much about this kind of problem, unless I can reproduce it on my hardware. Sometimes, I can ask questions, until finally may be able to narrow it down.

One question, does the problem occur if you choose ext2 for the save-file?

Personally, I always use ext2, so if any problems come up with ext3 or ext4 I rely on others to discover them. I don't really see how that can be the cause of your problem, though.

I am planning to test Precise on more hardware. I have a few more PCs in storage in my garage, I will set them up, maybe tomorrow._________________http://bkhome.org/news/

The Woof-level notes above state that this pup has a new Xorg Video Wizard and a "recovery mechanism". if you bootup and do not get a graphical desktop, and the keyboard/mouse have hung, which can happen with some troublesome old video hardware, press the 'reset' button on the PC or hold down the 'power' button for 4 seconds to force a shutdown -- at next startup the "recovery mechanism" kicks in, forcing the Xorg Video Wizard to run. Then, you can try an alternate Xorg driver.
As this is a new feature, I welcome feedback, especially tweaks for the /usr/sbin/xorgwizard-cli script, if you know Bash coding!

...tested on my Asus 1225c which is equiped with Atom cedar trails. And it does not work for me. At first pass: black screen. Reboot. Second pass: black screen.

So far, the only puppies that could boot were Racy v5.5 and upup-precise 3.8.3. These two boots into 1024x768. Then when running xorg video wizard manually and ask for a probe, will allow the 1366x768 ; Important to note: the screen in text mode to chose between probe, test... is too big and goes out of the screen ! So you need to type in blind (enter the first time, because hopefully this is the default, then enter again when the screen resolution is selected) because you don't see the buttons. It seems the issue is common and most people when having video problems get down to 1024x768 so maybe it would be good to adapt the message for that size so anyone can see the buttons to press.

Best regards
Laurent

Does the black screen occur after the boot-up? That is, do you get all the startup messages, then finally it starts up Xorg and the graphical desktop -- but not in your case, but if you do get the messages right up to that point, then it does mean that Xorg is trying to start.

If you get the black screen earlier, then it would seem that you have an incompatibility with the Linux kernel._________________http://bkhome.org/news/

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